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Senioreiden medialukutaitoja koskeva tutkimus on viime vuosina lisääntynyt. Aiempi tutkimus on kuitenkin ongelma- ja vajekeskeistä, eikä se ole riittävästi huomioinut senioreiden taitoja kriittisesti arvioida medioita. Artikkeli vastaa tähän tutkimustiedon tarpeeseen, ja siinä tarkastellaan voimavaranäkökulmasta, kuinka seniorit kuvailevat ja arvioivat medioita ja mediasisältöjä. Tutkimusaineistona on Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran kanssa yhteistyössä järjestettyyn kirjoitustapahtumaan osallistuneen 54 seniorin (65–91-vuotiaat) kirjoitukset, jotka sisälsivät sekä kuvauksen yhdestä mediapäivästä että mediasta osana kirjoittajan elämänhistoriaa. Kirjoituksia analysoitiin medialukutaidon jäsennyksiä hyödyntäen sen suhteen, miten niissä arvioitiin medioiden ja mediasisältöjen painottuneisuutta, valikoituneisuutta, näkökulmaisuutta, laatua, luotettavuutta ja henkilökohtaista merkitystä. Tutkimuksen päätulos on, että tutkimukseen osallistuneet seniorit kuvailivat ja arvioivat medioita ja niiden sisältöjä temporaalisesti, kriittisesti ja tunteikkaasti. Tutkimuksen merkittävin uusi tulos on senioreiden medialukutaidon temporaalisuus, jolla tarkoitetaan, että seniorit kuvailivat ja arvioivat nykymedioita ajallisesta näkökulmasta, vertaamalla niitä menneisyyden medioihin ja mediasisältöihin. Temporaalisuuden käsite tekee ymmärrettäväksi sen, miksi esimerkiksi joidenkin nykyisten radio- ja TV-toimittajien puheviestintä näyttäytyy osalle senioreita ”lärpätyksenä”.

The aim of the article is to provide an up-to-date view of the issue of seniors, from a slightly different angle. Not to stigmatize the elderly only as a group of people who burden the social system year after year, demanding better pension security and a better pension policy, but to show the elderly in different situations – as economically active, to evaluate their age and share of the total population, what is their marital status, but also to watch as partners who have not yet resigned to their lives and are still thinking about the future. The aim is also to point out that the aging of the population is indeed a process that continues and deepens, not only in the Czech Republic, but it is necessary to emphasize that not only seniors contribute to this situation, but also, for example, the decline in the birth rate. It is necessary to take into account the state and level of our society, which, with its social and housing policy and approach to young families, does not create an ideal and perspective pro-population concept. The article will use methods of analysis, comparison and description in the text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Postoperative delirium is one of the most common postoperative complications in patients over 65 years of age. The prevention of delirium should start already in the anesthesiology clinic, with the identification of patients at risk and efforts to optimize the condition before the procedure. During surgery, the depth of anesthesia should be monitored, opioid doses should be minimized, and combined methods of anesthesia should be used. After the surgery the automatic implementation of non-pharmacological preventive and treatment measures is crucial. Pharmacological approaches are used as a last option method in agitated and aggressive patients with hyperactive delirium. Currently, the recommended procedures in the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of delirium are not routinely used in clinical practice. The aim of the article is to describe the current possibilities of prevention and treatment of postoperative delirium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives. Neuropsychological tests employ several cognitive functions to a different extent. Thus, factor structures of various neuropsychological batteries and their analyses show both similarities and discrepancies. The study explores the Czech comprehensive neuropsychological battery for SuperAgers (older people with excellent cognition) from the cross-sectional and longitudinal point of view in respect to its factor structure and its stability over time. Sample and settings. The study sample consisted of 361 healthy older adults (age 60-94) assessed in years 2012 and 2015 with cognitive tests battery. Statistical analyses. Data were analyzed with confirmatory factor and invariance analyses over time using multiple competing theorydriven models of cognition based on previous studies consisting of 1-5 factors. Results. The results show that the best fitting model consists of four factors: verbal memory, attention/working memory, executive functions, and language. The results also suggest that the four factorial structure of cognition in healthy older people was the most stable. This reflects their cognitive functioning and highlights the need to identify the SuperAgers on the basis of performance in multiple cognitive domains. The authors propose that these four domains should be taken into account for identifying SuperAgers and that comparing competing models should be a standard procedure in future studies. Limitations. The visuospatial or nonverbal memory factors were not represented in our study with relevant tests. Our sample consisted of healthy older adults. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objectives. The aim of the study is to verify the structure of the WHOQOL-AGE tool on the basis of a representative group of Czech seniors older than 60 years of age. Sample and setting. Sample of participants consisted of 403 seniors (75 males, 228 females, average age 70.7 ys, SD = 7.72, range 60 - 91 ys, selected by quota system according to gender, age, and region. Results. Bifactor confirmatory analysis and the degree of agreement of data with Rasch's model acceptably supported the one-dimensional structure of the tool and can be recommended as a screening questionnaire for estimating quality of life of seniors older than 60 years, especially in cases where it is necessary to limit the time and cognitive burden of respondents. Study limitation. The findings are limited to a Czech general representative population sample. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is the most significant metabolic disease in old age. Methods: As of 31 October 2019, 237 residents with an average age of 80.5 years lived in two facilities for the elderly, 63 (26.6%) out of them men and 174 (73.4%) women. Among seniors, there were 84 residents (35.4%) who had diabetes mellitus and 19 seniors (8%) with pre-diabetic conditions. We divided the whole population into two groups: a group of 103 residents (43.5%) with diabetes and pre-diabetic conditions and a group of the remaining 134 (56.5%) seniors who were not treated for diabetes or pre-diabetic conditions. Data on diabetes treatment, the average number of regular medications, polypharmacy (regular use of 5 or more drugs and regular use of 5 to 9 drugs) and excessive polypharmacy (regular use of 10 or more drugs) were obtained from the population's medical records and verified in drug books using e-Health. We statistically evaluated the files using Student's t-test and χ2-test in contingency tables. Results: In the group of 84 diabetics, 33 seniors (39.3%) were treated with insulin, 25 residents (29.7%) were treated with peroral antidiabetics, 13 residents (15.5%) were treated with a combination of insulin and oral antidiabetics and 13 seniors (15.5%) were without pharmacotherapy. Seniors with diabetes and pre-diabetic conditions regularly took on average more drugs (10.49) than other seniors (7.6). The differences were statistically significant. Five or more drugs were used by 95.1% of the population with diabetes and glucose homeostasis, compared with 81.3% of the population of non-diabetics. Excessive polypharmacy occurred twice as often in the group of people with diabetes and prediabetes (60.8%) compared to other seniors (30.3%). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since January 2012 we have been assessing the degree of dependence for the purposes of care allowance according to the ability of assessed person to take care of 10 basic living needs, defined as a summary of individual activities and determined in annex no. 1 in the announcement no 505/2006 Coll. The aim of the communication is analysis of the assessment of the degree of dependence for the purposes of care allowance since 2012 at persons older than 65 years with mental illness. As the result of the assessment of the degree of dependence in the period 2012–2018 there is constant reduction quantity of the assessments of the degree of dependence for mental illness at all age groups, therefore people older than 65 years. There is also a reduction of the cases of dementia. The reason may be the criteria of the assessment, which do not take into account the differences in the progress of the disease at seniors not even a geriatric fragility. Other reason of the results can be statistical mistake. As a third reason we may consider low public awareness about possibilities of social compensations of the health disability in the form of the care allowance. As a conclusion the authors suggest actualization of the assessment criteria of the degree of dependence for assessed seniors, including the people with dementia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objectives. This study aims to examine the psychometric properties of the short version of the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15), which was designed to detect depressive symptoms, assess its distribution of scores and the effect of demographic variables, to present the percentile norms. Sample and setting. Sample of participants consisted of 538 mentally healthy functionally independent persons 60 years old and older, with no serious neurological or psychiatric disorder, no cognitive impairment, no use of antidepressants, anxiolytics or hypnotics who, based on subjective evaluation (self-report), completed the GDS-15 questionnaire. Statistical analyses. Data were analyzed with Spearman's and point-biserial correlation coefficients, tetrachoric correlations, Kruskal-Wallis test, Mann-Whitney U test, and McDonald's omega. Results. In the study, none of the demographic variables (age, sex, education) was a statistically significant factor influencing the GDS-15 results, nor did the marital status (single, divorced, widowed, married) and the character of housing (alone, with a partner, with a family, in a senior housing). The study provides normative data of GDS-15 on a large sample of older persons from the Czech general population. Study limitation. The main limit is the absence of a clinical sample to determine a cut-off score and its specificity and sensitivity for clinical purposes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the population over 65 years is estimated at 2-3%. There are often advanced forms with destructions and patients have impaired function, as well as the high incidence of comorbidities and the need for additional medication. Evidence on the efficacy and safety of biological therapy comes primarily from open extensions and observational, cohort studies. Most of them showed that the efficacy of anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha (anti-TNFα) antibodies in patients older than 65 years compared with younger is the same, only one study has demonstrated efficacy in the elderly versus younger 20% lower. The activity of the disease is favorably influenced, the effect on improving function is ambiguous. The incidence of adverse events in seniors with RA is higher than in younger patients, particularly severe infections and discontinuation of treatment. However, some studies show that this incidence is not higher than in patients of the same age treated with conventional medicines. One study showed lower efficacy of tocilizumab in the elderly than in the younger patients. A meta-analysis of two studies with Janus kinases showed the same efficacy and slightly increased incidence of serious infections, including herpes zoster. It can be concluded that biological treatment in patients with RA over 65 years has a positive efficacy / risk ratio and age should not be a limiting factor in the use of this treatment. Each patient should be evaluated individually and closely monitored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose – The aim of the survey which is presented in this research study, was to obtain information on senior literacy competences in the field of information literacy and their interest in learning on various topics related to Internet and ICT work. The main research question was focused on finding the topics in which seniors want to be educated. Design/Methodology/Approach – This research is a component of the empirical part of the dissertation thesis and is based on already published results of qualitative research that examined the needs of seniors in the work with the Internet. The obtained results were subsequently verified on the level of generalizability by means of quantitative research. The questionnaire survey obtained more than 750 responses. The research design was set to the parameters of applied research and quantitative research was one of its sections. Results – Research has shown that seniors are generally very interested in learning through the libraries network. Topics that are interesting to them are more often related to content (such as editing photos) than to using software and using e-mail, text editors, etc. At the same time, elderly people declare a relatively high degree of competence in everyday internet activities and technology. Originality/Value – Due to the fact that the process of education of seniors in libraries is not dealt with in a general and systematic manner and each library prepares lessons itself, ten topics that emerged from the research were didactically transformed into educational lessons. This methodical guide is freely available through eknihy.knihovna.cz portal and has the ambition to become a practical guide not only for librarians but also for other institutions dealing with senior education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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